Issue 142
Summer & Fall 2012
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You are currently looking at the fifth issue of TriQuarterly Online, and it's a good one. We're very excited to feature recordings of some of our poets reading their work. John Bresland was kind enough to curate another set of video essays for us, each one constructed around a single image. You'll also find the work of poets Ghalib and Yang Zi translated from Urdu and Chinese, respectively, and we're proud to host three new poems from Sharon Olds. We have fresh creative nonfiction from the likes of Sven Birkerts, Monica Berlin, and Ander Monson, who also sends photos. Finally, this issue's fiction includes astronauts, Keats, and X-Men, among other things (but what else could you want, really?). We truly hope you enjoy this issue as much as we do. Send praise and grumblings to triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu. --L.P.
Managing Editor: Lydia Pudzianowski
Faculty Advisor: Alice George
Literary Editor: S.L. Wisenberg
Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
Technical Advisor: Alex Miner
Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
Graduate Fellow: Ben Schacht
Book Review Editor: Karen Zemanick
Assistant Book Review Editor: Leigh Arber
Chapbook Review Editor: Anthony Opal
Fiction Editors: Matt Carmichael, Cathy Gao, Carrie Muehle, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
Nonfiction Editor: Sarah Hollenbeck
Poetry Editor: Lana Rakhman
Assistant Poetry Editor: Virginia Smith
Staff: Rebecca Bald, Cathy Beres, Michelle Cabral, Patrick Allen Carberry, Bonnie Cauble, Jen Companik, Rachel Curry, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Vincent Francone, Andrew Galligan, Barbara Ghoshal, Yliana Gonzalez, Eric Grawe, Betsy Haberl, Ish Harris-Wolff, Noelle Havens, Elizabeth Herbert, Gretchen Kalwinski, Nath Jones, Jen Lawrence, Joyce Lee, Eldad Malamuth, Carrie Muehle, Tien (Mimi) Nguyen, Amber Peckham, Cory Phare, C. Russell Price, Jenna Rabideaux, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Ross Ritchell, Paula Root, Dan Schuld, Michi Smith, Megan Marie Sullivan, Adam Talaski, Myra Thompson, Alisa Ungar-Sargon
The Treehouse
I don’t yet know what this is about, or if there’s a master plan, but since I am by nature romantic, I’m willing to believe one exists. I trust something good—ennobling even—will come of this. John Keats said, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter,” and I’d like to believe that’s true.
The Entire City
1. Plaster
A few months ago, my father died.
In 1986, when he was thirty-two years old—the year I turned four—my father, Dr. John Mayers, published his University of Portland doctoral dissertation, The Privacy of Other Places, with a small press in North Carolina.
The Fourth Man
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don’t care.
Pablo Picasso, on news of the first moon landing, quoted in the New York Times, July 21, 1969